Overland Storage Introduces REO Business Continuity Appliance to Offer SMBs Simple, Economical Protection of Servers, Applicatio
07 July 2009 - 9:30PM
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Leading Insurance Underwriter Achieves Optimal RTO/RPO with
Real-Time Replication, Application-Aware Failover and Failback to
Safeguard Physical and Virtual Server Environment SAN DIEGO, July 7
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL)
today introduced the REO(R) Business Continuity Appliance (BCA), an
innovative, all-in-one solution that offers small and medium-sized
businesses a highly affordable, streamlined approach for protecting
mission-critical applications and data as well as physical and
virtual server environments. The new REO BCA leverages Overland's
award-winning REO(R) SERIES disk-based backup and recovery VTL to
integrate a single, cost-effective appliance with a streamlined
approach for simplifying both continuous local backup and remote
disaster recovery. REO BCA automates the reliable recovery of vital
data and applications at both the local data center and remote
disaster recovery sites by combining capacity-optimized replication
technology with comprehensive application-aware failover and
failback. The result is non-disruptive, continuous availability of
core business applications, such as email, databases and
unstructured files, along with the ability to recover from any
point in time or event. Additionally, patented point-in-time "book
marking" technology enables "near-zero" Recovery Point and Recovery
Time Objectives (RPO/RTO). Other unique REO BCA features designed
to deliver heightened yet affordable and uncomplicated business
continuity include: -- Seamless integration with Windows/Linux file
services, Microsoft Exchange and SQL as well as complete support of
virtualized environments, including VMware, and Hyper-V; --
Non-disruptive server, application and data migration for
maximizing existing and new infrastructure investments; -- Server,
storage and network hardware independence to facilitate tiered
storage strategies for robust disaster recovery; and -- Centralized
management and reporting, including an Environmental Profiler for
analyzing data, network and storage resource utilization. According
to Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of worldwide marketing for
Overland Storage, REO BCA raises the business continuity bar for
SMBs with its integrated, all-in-one approach. "We've extended our
data protection capabilities with a solutions-centric offering that
ensures mission-critical data and applications are always protected
without the additional cost and complexity of host- and array-based
business continuity," he says. "In doing so, Overland provides its
global channel partners with a highly economical, easy to deploy
and manage solution that meets end-users' current SLAs while
providing valuable insight into trends and resources so they can
anticipate and more effectively address ever-increasing business
requirements." Overland's REO BCA is the focal point of a recently
fortified disaster recovery infrastructure at RSUI, a leading
insurance underwriter based in Atlanta. RSUI already relied on
Overland's REO 9100c disk-based backup and recovery appliance with
compression along with the company's NEO 4000 tape automation
appliance for disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection and SOX
compliance. With the new REO BCA, RSUI is elevating its business
continuity capabilities significantly with real-time replication of
its physical and virtual environment as well as mission-critical
email and SQL databases. For Ed Craig, senior network architect for
RSUI, Overland's REO BCA has lowered the barriers to bringing
continuous data replication into his environment. "REO BCA is a
one-stop solution that does it all -- physical to virtual
replication, block-level transfers, push-button failover and
failback, load balancing, WAN optimization and more," he says. "The
appliance fit perfectly into our environment and has been
instrumental in helping us get much more aggressive with our SLAs,
reducing our window of data and application recovery from two to
three days to less than 12 hours." "Despite the budget pressures
brought on by current economic difficulties, organizations of all
sizes know that now is when they need to be even more responsive to
customers. Ensuring that all of their IT applications are protected
and quickly recoverable is a critical requirement," said Richard
Villars, vice president of storage systems research at IDC.
"Solutions like Overland's REO BCA that are designed and priced for
small and mid-sized business will make it make it more practical
for IT managers to deploy robust data protection for their physical
and virtual server environments." Availability and Pricing
Overland's REO BCA comes in two configurations: REO BCA 100, a 1u
appliance that starts with support for up to five application
servers; and REO BCA 200, a 2u appliance that starts with support
for up to 10 application servers. Application server filter drivers
can be installed on new and existing application servers, requiring
less than one percent resource utilization. REO BCA is available
now through Overland partners for a starting solution MSRP of
approximately $24,000. About Overland Storage Overland Storage
provides affordable end-to-end data protection solutions that are
engineered to store smarter, protect faster and extend anywhere --
across networked storage, media types and multi-site environments.
Overland Storage products include award-winning NEO SERIES(R) and
ARCvault(TM) tape libraries, REO SERIES(R) disk-based backup and
recovery appliances with VTL capabilities, Snap Server(R) NAS
appliances, and ULTAMUS(TM) RAID high-performance, high-density
storage. Overland sells its products through leading OEMs,
commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added
resellers. For more information, visit Overland's web site at
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